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005			20251106103229.0
008			180102s2018 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2017061767
020			_a9781501164194 _qhardback
040			_aStDuBDS _beng _cStDuBDS _dUk _dKH8 _erda
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082	0	0	_a822.33 BLO _223
100	1		_aBloom, Harold, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLear : _bthe great image of authority / _cHarold Bloom.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bScribner, _c2018.
300			_axi, 160 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aShakespeare's personalities
500			_aFormerly CIP. _5Uk
520			_a"Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch--a man in his eighties, like Harold Bloom himself--is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Emma Bovary or Hamlet when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--of Lear, so that this book also explores an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare's characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy, pathos, and clarity in Lear"-- _cProvided by publisher.
530			_aAlso issued online.
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616. _tKing Lear.
650		0	_aKings and rulers in literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. _2bisacsh
942			_2ddc _cNFIC